HKS Affiliated Authors
Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
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Achieving Global Health Equality Within a Generation. Lawrence Summers, January 21, 2014, Opinion. "We are on the cusp of a once in human history achievement. When looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition. Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge..." Link verified April 3, 2014